Andrès Garcìa is the man you want. Seriously. For a perfectly crafted piece of electronics, subtly yet irresistibly enthralling the dancefloor. For a decadent rhumba in the background of a tropical tragedy on a theatrical stage. For a shimmering fabric of melodic splinters, made to measure for a 21st Century ballet. And now for the highly
cinematic Haunted Love, a bold and catchy collection of funky pop songs.

A reasonably long while before all this, Andrès was born and raised in music between the Spanish Galicia and Geneva. Going all the way from classical to jazz to electroacoustic sounds, he ended up pretty soon creating his own. At the dawn of the 1990s, he started composing for the theatre and for contemporary dance shows, which brought him to tour internationally with companies such as Omar Porras' Teatro Malandro, Guilherme Botelho’s Alias Compagnie and Oskar Gómez Mata’s L'Alakran. Around the same time, he took up the accordion, as well as singing and the sound engineer’s desk, to form I Mericani, a red-hot, “global-folk” band that released four albums, while touring extensively across Europe and Canada.

With the new millennium, Andrès dived deeper in electronics, releasing a little-known but highly-praised first solo album (I Am Your Friend) and a string of EP's on a bunch of trend-setting international labels (Connaisseur, Kalk Pets, Treibstoff, Crosstown Rebels),
pairing up on occasions with some cult characters of the electronic scene for a couple of colourful duos (the electro-funk AG/BG with Paris the Black Fu of Detroit Grand Pubahs, the latin-techno John Keys with Dandy Jack).

It all comes together on Haunted Love, where Andrès teams up with new partners (a string quartet, harmonica wonder Grégoire Maret...) for an electro-infused, goosebumb-inducing, jazz-rock-tinged album, bouncy like a West Coast groove king, mellow like a breeze, melodically heartbreaking and relentlessly surprising like a haunted romance in the middle of the jungle... Oh, and the Ghost? Got to get back to you on that.

Nic Ulmi